Caster.



-A. BALLENBBRG.

CASTE R,

APPLIOATIOI' FILED SEPT. 21, 1909.

Pacemeae ig, 191's.

lllflhll ADDLPH BALLEHBEBG, F NEW YORK, N. "21, ASSIGNOB: T0 UI-lTlZ-VEBSAL FOUNDRY GQMPANY, 0:5 HEW YGRK, N. Y., A CGBPORATION 01' NEW JERSEY.

Application filed. September 21, 1%9. serial No; fi-lSgSQL.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Anonrn BALLENBERG, a. citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of lllanhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gasters, of which the following is a specific-a;- tion, accompanied by drawings.

The invention is designed for use with tubular legs which are of large diameter relatively to the pintle. It is customary to provide such legs with an ernarneulal collar or leg mount, and the object of the invention is to provide a sim )le, economical. and reliable caster construction .whercin'the leg mount combined with a pintlo socket or sleeve illl'll detaehahly secured therewith to the leg, the

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pintle and caster proper being preferably cletachably secured to the said sleeve or socket.

The preferrcrl embodiment of the invention is exeinplilie-l and illustrated in the accompanying clnnvings, wherein Figure 1 is an elevation. partly in central section, showing a caster construction sun borlying the improvement; Fig. a plan 3 shows modificaf F 1.

tion of the spring in In Figs. 1 and 2 the jaws, B the ball bearing device which may or may not be used, anti l. the pintle provided with a head ll for holding it in its socket or sleeve. 53 is the socket or sleeve which affords bearing and support for thepintle P. Its upper encl may he s'itieii to form spring 10 which allow the h ml 11 of the pintle to he thrust lhrough hem, but normally hold the pintle iron" annoying out of the socket when lhe leg is raised. The socket or slecv S is rigidly SQCHICll to the supporting dish 1) and the leg mount M which surrounds and approximately il and centers the tubular leg ii is also rigidly se cured tmthe disk. D. Preferably the (list: is corrugated to form a shoulder at l lending to center the internally and prr (ant lilting of the disk and leg mount. Surrouiuling the sleeve or socket S and secured to it in any suitable. way, as for example by upsetting the metal of lhe sleeve above and below it, as illustrated, is a spring member F. This spring member F preferably con: of a strip of sheet metal bent, as shown, Fig. 1, toforin a rechingulzw horizontal portion 12, from which the metal is bent upward and: then bent clown, as at 15 itorin dependent spring wings which press strongly outward against the interiorofi the legsecure the combined socket disk and leg mount S, D, M, to the tubular leg. upper portions of the spring member will bear a ainst the. inner surface of the leg and give support to the upper end of the sleeve and pintle P when the pinlle is tilleal slightly, ano this feature may be relied upon to center the upper end of the pintle where the shoulder 14% and the construction of the leg supporting disk I) is not such effectively to prevent the relative tilting of the leg L and the combined leg nioi'int and Clisli.

In Fig. 3 a modified form of the 5 .1115; member F is shown, in which the upper he i Zontal portion 20 is of size suihcient to approxiinaiely lit the tubular leg and the spring wings'Ql are bent clown ar il directly from the flat portion 20. The form shown in 1 allords greater spring to the spring Wings of the member F than Fig. .3, but on the other hancl the form shown in Fig. i. is

It will be seen from the clotted position oi the sprb wings shown in 1 that the freeencls of the spring extend well clown within the leg mount Hi l are protected. thereby when the easier socket and connect eel parts are shipped or handled while. separated from the in using the improves easier, it will be unrlei'stemd that the Ct'll'll lllliil leg mount, disk and socks S with its spring incu'ibcr F can. be appliecl to the leg and it mu be held thereto, ancl the caster wheel, jaws and pintle can be rwzlily izrljustithereto and; Ll0- taehecl tierefrom. i

if claim anti desire to obiuin by Letters Patent the following:

in combination with a caster wheel. jaws ancl'pintle, a pintlo snpporliiu i leg supporting clislc H cured to said Sll'rli'v], ul leg mount exteiul inn" upwaril and ailnplr-(l to surround :1 mmlill' leg above the owl thereof, I Zllll spring" member surrounding the sleeve horizontally aiul secured near the upper Gl'lll oi. the said sleeve and having llepe urling spring wings adapted to act outward against the interior wardly-acting free spring arms the lower ends of which extend within and are encir (led by the leg mount.

In testimony whereof I have signed this 15 specification in the presence of tWo suhsciibing Witnesses,'this 20th day of September,

ADOLPH BALLENBERG. Witnesses E. P. LA GAY, K. G. LE ARI). 

